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I went back to Rochester over spring "break" to work on some brain data I left there. Grad students don't get vacation! Fortunately, my visit was timed so that I was able to pick up a free sample of?Hedonist Artisan Chocolates's new Spring Collection?(full description and "artist's notes" here).
While in the shop, I got a chance to chat with head chocolatier?Nathaniel Mich about his creative process in developing the collection. He was inspired by spring gardens and put together a collection that utilized a variety of flavors, textures, and techniques.
Strawberry Rhubarb is Hedonist's first layered truffle. It was gorgeous to behold, with a bottom layer comprised of a creamy pink strawberry ganache and a top layer that was a translucent rhubarb fruit pate.
The strawberry ganache reminded me of super flavor-concentrated strawberry yogurt, a great mix of fruity sweetness mixed with dairy creaminess and just a tinge of tartness. The rhubarb layer was a soft gel that was bright and sweet. Apparently it's?made with a local rhubarb wine – who knew there was such a thing?
I loved the berry brightness of this treat, and its dusky chocolate chaser was a great ending note. It was like a perfectly ripe chocolate-covered strawberry distilled into one creamy bite. Easily my favorite of the collection.
The Earl Grey Caramel was a dark chocolate dipped caramel that was infused and topped with organic tea leaves. The dark chocolate coating cracked and flaked off when I bit into it, revealing a speckled caramel center.
The caramel was chewy and slightly sticky with just a bit of grit and grain to the texture.
I usually like chewing caramels, but I preferred to let this one melt into my mouth so that I could savor its depth of flavor – a deep burnt sugar caramel with woodsy tea notes that had a hit of salt and a slight bitterness at the end.
Porcini Thyme was a rolled truffle coated in chocolate and dusted with cocoa. It was deep and woodsy and earthy with a dash of smokiness. The thyme brought a mild herbal grassiness to the finish.
Mushroom and chocolate is a unique flavor combination that I've only had once before.?The bittersweet and savory blend was well-balanced here.?It's definitely an unusual surprise for the tastebuds and harkens back to chocolate truffles' original namesake.
Tarragon Carrot was a dipped truffle topped with a tiny piece of chewy dried carrot. It started off sweet from the chocolate, then turned earthy with a vegetal rootiness, and finished with carrot's sweetness.
The tarragon added an herbal undertone that was hinted at throughout the flavor profile. The sizeable dried carrot bit on my pieces added a chewiness that distracted from the truffle. From the looks of the website, they've replaced it with a sprinkle of smaller dried carrot bits, so that's probably no longer an issue.
Cardamom Rosewater was a pink striped dipped truffle that started off chocolatey sweet, then became full-on gingery (cardamom is a member of the ginger family!). The ginger flavor was more like what I associate with powdered ginger spice rather than fresh ginger – it had a light edge of dry bitterness to the finish.
This truffle was sweeter than the others, either because of its milk chocolate base or the addition of honey. I wonder if the honey was what also gave the ganache an unusually smooth look?
Nathaniel said the cardamom rosewater was his favorite of the collection. I feel bad for admitting that it was my least favorite – I liked it, but something has to be on the relative bottom! I just don't like ginger enough to embrace the intensity of the gingery cardamom flavor here.
Cardamom rosewater gets an O, the tarragon carrot and porcini thyme get OMs, earl grey caramel gets an OMG, and the strawberry rhubarb earned a ZOMG! for its combination of flavor, texture, and sheer beauty in construction.
As a whole, this collection is a truly unique assortment with inventive flavor combinations that really set them apart. Compare that to Godiva's more conventional (i.e. boring) and more expensive spring collection – there's no question where your money should be going!


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Artist and master carpenter Ian Montgomery tried his hand at paper arts back in 2007 by collaboratively making this life-size bear. As you can see in the video, it is constructed from several pieces of brown craft paper, taped together to make a single giant square piece of paper with which to fold. He writes,
Troy Hurtubise, in his film Project Grizzly, constructed a "grizzly-proof" suit of armor in which to battle his fear of bears. In response I embraced a project that would confront my own deepest fear: failure. My goal was to create a life-size grizzly bear using origami techniques, something I did not excel at even on a small scale. I also had to accept the fact that I would not be able to complete this project on my own. The shear size of the paper required was too cumbersome to manage and I would have to rely on others to help me (another fear). Armed with scale models and a security camera to document whatever the outcome, four of us began constructing the giant piece of paper needed. From there we folded our way through the dozens of steps and after 6+ hours on our knees the bear emerged. I set out to fail and failed to fail whereby truly failing and thus count this project a success.
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"That's how old I was when I was producing That Girl," Marlo Thomas tells me when I say I'm 24 years old. And like that, I'm riddled with self-consciousness and doubt. She sits polished in a hip yet age-appropriate (age-defying, really, for 76 ) leather jacket, and hoop earrings. Even her hair is perfectly coiffed. Meanwhile, I sit in my wrinkled, ill-fitting blazer, sweaty from nerves and running to get to this interview on time.
It's hard not to feel like a large failure next to Thomas, especially when you can barely control the cockroach problem in your apartment and remember to pay your rent on time. I am not starring and producing in my own television show. I live just 45 minutes from my childhood home, so I am hardly the pillar of independence. To this, Thomas says, "That's what Ann Marie did. Her family lived in Brewster, and she lived in the big city." The comparison to her famous television character sets me off in a completely unprofessional fit of giggles, but she smiles again and says "You're doing it. You're doing great. You are."
This is not the response I expected. Before Thomas got to the swank restaurant by Rockefeller Center, I sat wondering if I was more anxious about meeting the feminist pioneer because she created my childhood favorite Free to Be...You and Me or because she had given life to the iconic That Girl, whose charm and cheer I not-so-secretly aspired to emulate. Or because, well, it was freaking Marlo Thomas, a major voice in Women's Lib who marched with Gloria Steinem and managed to have multiple careers as an actress, producer, writer, and activist over nearly five decades.
"One of the most important things women need to think is that they are their own resources," she tells me in her matter-of-fact voice. She brings her own tea bags in a neat Ziploc bag, and I am mildly awed at her preparedness and chutzpah. "You're not going to be rescued by someone else. It ain't going to happen." She's explaining why she felt it was important to show women stories of successful self-reliance in later years in her new book It Ain't Over... Till It's Over: Reinventing Your Life—and Realizing Your Dreams—Anytime, at Any Age, a collection of stories about women who rebooted their lives in their 40s, 50s, and 60s.
Though she's speaking about women decades older than I am, it feels like Thomas is speaking to me and every other twentysomething woman who has wondered if finding the right guy would somehow solve the other problems in our lives. "The prince is not going to come along with a glass slipper," Thomas says. "You really have to do it yourself."
In fact, as I read It Ain't Over I find myself relating to the women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s struggling to figure out how to start a second or third chapter in their professional, romantic, and spiritual lives. I'm actually struggling to carve out my first. My own anxiety about the future and that secret desire to be rescued—if not by a man, then just by something—is always present. Thomas doesn't let women indulge in these feelings. "You have to do it yourself. Figure out yourself what you want and find a way to get it."
This pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mentality may seem to stand in contrast to Thomas's sugary sweet persona as Ann Marie in the light-as-air That Girl. A young, beautiful actress with a doctor boyfriend-later-fiancé and doting father, Ann Marie doesn't just seem tame by today's standards; she seems old-fashioned as the prototypical good girl.
Yet, it is often forgotten how radical That Girl was for the television landscape when it premiered in 1966. The dominating television shows with women starring on them were Bewitched—about a witch trying her hardest to be a traditional homemaker for her husband and children—and I Dream of Jeannie—about an attractive genie devoted to serving the astronaut she calls "master" (and later marries). Ann Marie may not have been burning her bras or enjoying free love, but being a single woman with no desire to marry was enough to keep Thomas, an executive producer of That Girl, battling with ABC executives.
"They were concerned," she says. "How would America feel about a young woman saying 'I want to think about my career, and I don't want to get married.' That was very controversial. They felt America was uncomfortable with a girl who didn't live in a family unit. Family unit was the word," Thomas remembers. She cites other popular television series starring men to point out how different the standards were for female characters. "I said, 'David Janssen doesn't even have a city in The Fugitive. Why do I have to have a family unit?'"
Just as Thomas preaches today, when she wrapped That Girl in 1971 she was determined that Ann Marie remain solidly single to show women all over America that they didn't need to live happily ever after with Prince Charming to be happy with themselves. Thomas butted heads with higher-ups who wanted the series finale to be Ann Marie marrying her fiancé, Donald. "I couldn't do it. I really couldn't," she says. "I felt that it would be such a betrayal to all the girls who loved Ann Marie and looked up to her. To get married at the end of the show meant that I was saying it was the only happy ending. Every show ends that way. There's got to be one show that doesn't end with a wedding. One show that says 'Well, we'll see.'"
Unfortunately, that relationship-ambiguous ending is still almost as rare today for modern female protagonists as it was when That Girl ended in 1971. In the series finale of Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw, the ultimate sexually liberated, confident single woman only found her real happy ending when Mr. Big flew to Paris and whisked her back home in his arms. Sex and the City said being single wasn't good enough for its beloved heroine, and in doing so, suggested it wasn't sufficient for its ardent female fans, either. "That show was a lot about having a boyfriend, Mr. Big coming in and going out," says Thomas. In contrast to that finale, That Girl ends with Ann Marie taking her fiancé to a Women's Lib meeting. Boo-yah.
But Thomas has compliments for the new girls on television. "There are so many girls now!" she laughs. Of all of those shows, "New Girl is probably more on the That Girl wave." Indeed, compared to the acerbic humor of 2 Broke Girls, New Girl's more traditional sitcom style and its protagonist Jess's sweet nature and innocence makes the show far closer to the spirit of That Girl.
I pause and hesitate to ask Thomas for her thoughts on Lena Dunham's Girls, not only because That Girl's creator Bill Persky soundly denounced the series last year, but because I see more of myself in the sloppy, confused Hannah Horvath than the neatly organized Ann Marie. Persky slammed Girls for showing young women who dealt with their problems by "diving into a quart of Haagen-Dazs" or "sleeping with the pizza delivery guy." To hear Thomas similarly rebuke Girls would feel like a personal criticism on my own shortcomings.
Thomas, however, reveals she is actually far more understanding in her appraisal of Girls. "I think it's brave," she says. "That is how some people feel. You know, not everyone feels like That Girl." It's admirable that she doesn't admonish a show that abandons the role model protagonist template of That Girl, something so close to her heart and her success. Instead, she recognizes what a show like Girls can offer women: empathetic examples of messy lives that they can relate to or, to be honest, make them feel better about their own existence.Kind and encouraging as her words are, it's hard to imagine Thomas has actually ever resorted to drowning her feelings in illicit behavior like Hannah Horvath (or other women who shall not be named). But, when she hugs me goodbye and waltzes out of the restaurant, and as I triple-check that I haven't accidentally deleted the recording of our interview, I feel a little better about my scattered life. Maybe not good enough to fly a kite with my face on it through Central Park, but better.


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This is why Amazon will open physical bookstores
But wait, you say! Wasn't the report that Amazon is even planning a store retracted And wasn't Amazon created as an efficient alternative to brick-and-mortar stores Aren't all the bookstores going out of business partly because of Amazon
Confusion on all this abounds. Here's what you need to know about Amazon's brilliant plan to launch a chain of physical bookstores.
Sandeep Mathrani is the CEO of a company you've probably never heard of called General Growth Properties (GGP). It's a Chicago-based real estate investment trust that owns and manages shopping malls.
Last Tuesday, Mathrani accidentally blurted out the truth during an earnings call. He said: "You've got Amazon opening bricks-and-mortar bookstores, and their goal is to open, as I understand, 300 to 400 bookstores."
He was responding to a question, and his point was to highlight a trend among online stores, including Warby Parker and Birchbox, of opening physical retail locations.
Amazon doesn't like having its plans made known to the public. It's not hard to imagine that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos got mad, called Mathrani and demanded some spin control. Mathrani did issue a statement, and said his comment about Amazon stores "was not intended to represent Amazon's plans."
That feels and smells like a retraction, but it's not. Mathrani literally said nothing about the accuracy of his claim -- in other words he stands by his statement.
The truth is very likely that Amazon is, in fact, planning to open dozens or hundreds of retail stores.
The company is aggressively hiring for its brick-and-mortar bookstore operation, which it calls "Amazon Books." If you search the company's job listings, you'll see that it has lots of new positions to fill.
Amazon's single physical bookstore, in Seattle, was apparently just a trial run. The company is actively recruiting in La Jolla, Calif., an affluent San Diego neighborhood.
Other physical locations are likely to initially come one at a time, rather than dozens at once.
First, let's dispense with the false idea that Amazon is a bookstore that competes with, say, Barnes & Noble.
Amazon has been described as the "everything store." It sells auto supplies, groceries, gardening supplies and much more. In fact, in the U.S., Amazon sells about 200 million individual products in 35 categories. That means Amazon sells books, like Barnes & Noble does, plus 34 more categories of products that Barnes & Noble does not carry.
Amazon is also a major enterprise cloud storage and hosting site. It's a major book publisher itself, and a major marketplace for downloadable content like movies and music. Amazon is also a leading maker of consumer electronics, including the Amazon Echo and a line of book readers, among other things.
Taken in aggregate, Amazon's business has no significant resemblance to Barnes & Noble's.
Barnes & Noble sells books. Amazon sells everything. Or, more specifically, what Amazon sells is the impulse to buy everything from Amazon.
Amazon competes through innovation and services. For example, Amazon is driving innovation in delivery. Its "one-day delivery" program has made Prime membership a coveted service. The company has experimented with ways to drive the delivery time down to less than one day, with initiatives that include the use of couriers, "lockers" and drones.
Retail locations will help Amazon win on delivery. Retail stores could double as product pickup locations, distribution warehouses and, eventually, drone airports from which products are flown to nearby homes and businesses.
Another Amazon innovation is the use of "gateway drug" products, which are designed primarily to facilitate the buying of more products from Amazon.com. The Kindle line of e-book readers is for easy ordering of Amazon e-books, as well as other products. The Fire TV products are designed for easy Amazon Prime Video rentals.
I think it's no coincidence that Amazon's retail store group is headed not by a bookstore guy, but by a Kindle guy. Steve Kessel is in charge of the retail store initiative. He is best known for launching the first Kindle reader. Based on Kessel's track record, it's likely that Amazon sees physical bookstores as a great way to sell e-books, too.
Amazon's most successful homegrown product, the Amazon Echo, exists to let you order products on Amazon by talking.
The Amazon Echo is super compelling to anyone who tries one. The trouble is, there's no way to try it unless you buy it.
Retail stores will help. They'll become showcases where people can try an Echo to see how it works, and that will lead to a lot more people buying Echos.
Each Amazon retail store will be much more than just a gateway drug to Amazon's products. It will be a gateway drug where people will buy gateway drug products like the Echo.
When Barnes & Noble sells a book, it sells a book. When Amazon sells an Echo, it sells a lifetime of easy ordering of everything from Amazon.
Amazon is hyper-aware that mindshare is everything. You'll notice that every year, just before the holidays, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos makes a huge drone announcement. The obvious purpose of this annual stunt is to get people thinking about Amazon just as they're about to begin their holiday shopping.
Think about what it's like at a shopping mall in November and December: Crowds of people frantically shopping for presents. Malls are horrible places to shop for gifts. They tend to have limited quantities of incredibly ordinary products. What kind of gift are you going to buy in a mall A scented candle
An Amazon store in the mall reminds everyone that Amazon.com is the place where people can find anything and have it wrapped and delivered. Even if shoppers don't enter the store, just seeing the store is a reminder that Amazon could be the solution to holiday shopping problems.
Amazon is a major book publisher. The company offers myriad services for editing, design, formatting and distribution of hardcover and paperback books.
Amazon competes with other book publishers for authors. What other publishers can offer that Amazon cannot is coveted placement in physical bookstores. Those tables you see in a bookstore when you first enter are hot properties in the world of book marketing. And Amazon can't compete with that, until it gets its own bookstores.
Physical bookstores will help Amazon attract bigger-name authors.
One of Amazon's secrets to customer service is that it accepts returns, no questions asked. Physical bookstores would make it easy for people to return products.
They could also serve as "outlet" stores to sell returned merchandise, saving Amazon millions.
One of Amazon's big advantages is that it has so many credit cards in its system. The knowledge that Amazon already has your payment and delivery details means you don't have to enter all that information into a new site.
In order to grow, of course, Amazon has to attract new customers -- people who aren't already using its services. In fact, the majority of all retail sales still happen in physical stores. Those real-world sales are Amazon's growth opportunity.
One way to get new customers is to get their credit card information and other personal details. Amazon can do that by offering killer deals in physical stores. Once Amazon has someone's credit card, it will be able to remind that person later that buying more stuff is just a one-click deal now.
Another way Amazon eviscerates traditional retailers is via the practice of showrooming. That's where you go to a brick-and-mortar store and find the product you want but then buy it on Amazon -- sometimes standing right there in the store, using Amazon's mobile app.
Physical Amazon stores can encourage and facilitate showrooming, because they will have friendly salespeople to help you find, install and use the app. Once they teach you how to showroom in an Amazon retail store, you can continue showrooming in other stores.
The bottom line is that physical stores make total sense for Amazon from a growth perspective.
Amazon is not a "bookstore" anymore. It's the "everything store."
And eventually, it will be the "everywhere store."


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JACKSON SQ.—A man was shot in the leg in a burst of gunfire that also hit six vehicles in the Bromley-Heath housing development on the night of Oct. 11, according to a Boston Police Department (BPD) report.
Police officers patrolling Parker Street around 8 p.m. saw the unidentified victim, aged 18 or 19, running from the scene and found him lying wounded on the ground near 166 Terrace St. in nearby Mission Hill.
A gun and other ballistics evidence were recovered in the area, but no one has been charged in the shooting, according to BPD.
The three BPD officers and a Boston Housing Authority Police officer heard several gunshots in the area of 934 Parker St. and stopped an unidentified young man they saw running down Parker. At that time, they heard more gunshots and spotted the victim running across the Heath Street rotary into Mission Hill.
Officers chased the victim and found him suffering from a gunshot wound to the thigh. He was transported to a hospital. Inside Bromley-Heath, officers found six vehicles damaged by gunshots.
Bromley-Heath, a large public housing development between Heath and Centre streets, saw a wave of reportedly drug-related shootings earlier this year that left six people wounded. The shootings stopped after a police crackdown and security upgrades.


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Saturday, November 08, 2008
Why I Started Chasing Bad Girls, #11 (Mae West)
My new role model these days is Mae West, that blonde siren of the silver screen, who brimmed with pure self-love until the day she died. More than any of the other bad girls I've researched, Mae is absolute self-invention. And it wasn't until she was a grown woman of thirty-nine that she arrived in Hollywood to take her first film test. I adore Mae's wit, heat and toughness. Plus, she was a Brooklyn girl, which is what I've become since I started living here.
Mae lived on her own terms, and she willfully ignored her critics and the bad news they delivered. The story goes that during the filming of her first role, a smaller part in Night After Night with George Raft, Mae rewrote all her lines and insisted that the camera pacing give her ample time to work what she called her "extraordinary sex-personality."
Early in her career, when she was preparing for a show she had written called Sex, the director Edward Elsner slowed her down enough to analyze her style. Stopping Mae in mid-stride, he made her repeat movements to help her understand the ironic comedy her body was producing. He told Mae that her star power came from the way she used her body and voice, that she exuded a strange and amusing charm he had never seen before.
"You have a definite sexual quality, gay and unrepressed. It even mocks you personally," he said.
"A self-mocking sex quality?" Mae responded. "I mean, does it overshadow the part?"
"You reek with it," he said. "You have it all over you."
"Mae," I say. "Talk to me. Tell me it's all good. Give me some wisdom to cope."
And Mae says: "I have never wanted to be anyone other than me. Why would I when half the world was trying to imitate me? There was the time when my fans, from eight to eighty, tried to look like me, to walk like me, act like me, even feel like me. Too bad everybody just can't be themselves and be happy about it. I am. Remember that once popular song, 'I love me, I love me'? Baby, that's me."
Here I am in New York, the center of the universe. I've got my man, my friends and my neighbors all around me. Unlike Mae, though, I'm a simple girl. I carry my groceries home on foot because we don't own a car, and I'm on the gardening committee of our co-op building. I don't sleep on pink satin sheets.
Yes, life is good. And now I'm learning how to belly dance. I'm shimmying. I would love to have seen Mae do the "Shimmy Shawobble" live. I would have loved to shimmy with her. The soft and fluid sensuality of belly dancing suits me much better than the dramatic stamping of Lola Montez's flamenco. Like Mae, I know how good it is to be firmly embedded in the skin you're wriggling around in and loving it.
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- potdoll said...
Looking HOT Joyce! xx
- November 09, 2008 10:09 AM
Oh Joyce, I am so sorry to hear about JP Morgan. Not entirely sorry, in that if you're happy, then that's what matters, but I'm sorry for the upheaval and the shock. It will work out for you, and I have faith in that and in you, but I hope you manage to stay positive through all this. You deserve happiness, with Dave, in work, at those parties, in all you do. Thinking of you...
Livvy xxx - November 14, 2008 7:06 PM
First, for Courtesan: Read again, that happened about FIVE YEARS AGO!!
But Joycette, really now -- '"center of the universe?"
What would Bella say?! - November 21, 2008 9:10 AM
Very interesting blog! I dig :)
Thanks for posting - November 24, 2008 3:17 AM
so cheesey..........
- November 29, 2008 10:24 AM
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Bourbon Kings? Whoever thought of soaking royalty in booze was a genius!
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Were the missionaries who traveled from Connecticut to Hawaii during the 19th century products of their time with good intentions, or were they arrogant meddlers who helped dismantle the native culture?
The answer is complicated, said four experts who sat on a panel on Thursday night at Hartford Seminary. The discussion was part of a series of events on Hawaii and its Connecticut connection taking place this year.
The Rev. Dr. Steven Blackburn, Faculty Associate in Semitic Scriptures and Hartford Seminary's Library Director, gave a historical overview of the missionaries, who had great success at converting the Hawaiian people to Christianity. In part, this was because they felt it was their duty to change the native culture.
"They had no fear of disrupting Hawaiian society," he said.
Dr. Blackburn talked about the "collateral damage" caused by the missionaries. "After 200 years, we're still wrestling with the implications of whether the missionaries are good agents or bad agents," he said.
Following Dr. Blackburn, Dr. Clifford Putney of Bentley University discussed his book on two of the early missionaries to Hawaii: Peter and Fanny Gulick. The Gulicks were passionate about the mission to Hawaii, which would have been considered quite dangerous at the time.
Their legacy, like that of many missionaries, is "mixed." They helped educate native Hawaiians but "the early missionaries did not respect Hawaiian culture," which they found "heathenish."
Aolani Kailihou, a native Hawaiian who teaches at a school that immerses students in the Hawaiian language, talked about the missionaries' impact from the perspective of a culture still grappling with the repercussions.
"It's an emotional topic in Hawaii," she said. "Everyone has their own take."
As a researcher and teacher, she often deals with the journals and writings of the missionaries, who looked down on the people they were trying to convert. "It is not easy to read the things these people wrote," she said.
While Hawaiians are still in some ways recovering from the damage caused by missionaries, she said the future is bright because the "narratives are changing." Interest in Hawaiian scholarship and language is helping to reframe the story.
Dr. David Keanu Sai, who has a Ph.D. in Political Science specializing in Hawaiian Constitutionalism and International Relations, closed the event by talking about the missionaries from a historical Hawaiian perspective. He said that Chief Kamehameha decided to join the British empire as a way to deal with the warring kingdoms that inhabited the islands. To do that, he "knew he had to transform religion." He was expecting British missionaries, but instead found himself with Americans.
"Christianity did take a very strong hold, not because of the missionaries, but because of the chiefs," he said.


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Fast brain decoding with random sampling and random projections by Andrés Hoyos-Idrobo, Gaël Varoquaux, Bertrand Thirion
Abstract : Machine learning from brain images is a central tool for image-based diagnosis and diseases characterization. Predicting behavior from functional imaging, brain decoding, analyzes brain activity in terms of the behavior that it implies. While these multivariate techniques are becoming standard brain mapping tools, like mass-univariate analysis, they entail much larger computational costs. In an time of growing data sizes, with larger cohorts and higher-resolutions imaging, this cost is increasingly a burden. Here we consider the use of random sampling and projections as fast data approximation techniques for brain images. We evaluate their prediction accuracy and computation time on various datasets and discrimination tasks. We show that the weight maps obtained after random sampling are highly consistent with those obtained with the whole feature space, while having a fair prediction performance. Altogether, we present the practical advantage of random sampling methods in neuroimaging, showing a simple way to embed back the reduced coefficients, with only a small loss of information.
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Seriously, nothing says 'Look at me!' like these headphones. [Yardley Dobon] added a rainbow of colored electroluminescent wire to his headphones and made them pulse to the music. The video after the break shows the headphones bumping to the tunes. This is one of two versions of the project, the other runs the EL wire along the headphone wire itself. We're a bit surprised that the high frequency from that parallel run doesn't inject noise into the signal. We do enjoy seeing these in action, but in practice observers unfortunately won't be able to hear the tunes to which the lights are pulsing.
It took us a little while to figure out that [Yardley] didn't roll his own VU hardware. The inverter driving the EL wire is designed to bump to the music. But he did hack it to use an audio line rather than a microphone. He mentions that this has other uses, like allowing carefully crafted sound clips to precisely control the inverter.


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Researchers Identify Lynchpin to Activating Brown Fat Cells
UCSF Study Sheds Light on Fat-Burning Process That Could Help in Fighting Obesity
Fat cells are shown under a microscope.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have identified the lynchpin that activates brown fat cells, which burn fat molecules instead of storing them, making them the focus of pharmaceutical research aimed at fighting obesity.
The importance of brown fat in burning calories to generate heat in humans — as distinct from other mammals such as mice and bears — has only been appreciated in recent years. In humans, brown fat was until recently thought to be present only in infants. Scientists now know that adult humans possess small but significant deposits of brown fat — to go along with the all-too-obvious white fat that especially plagues the growing ranks of the obese.
Yuriy Kirichok, PhD
Brown fat can be activated by cold temperatures, and other research suggests that other stimuli, such as overeating, might also activate brown fat. Once activated, brown fat cells essentially causes the energy contained within fat molecules to be converted to heat — a process understood as a way for hibernating bears to maintain body temperature and for small mammals with lots of exposed body surfaces to keep warm.
As described in the October 12 issue of the scientific journal Cell, Yuriy Kirichok, PhD, associate professor of physiology at UCSF — working with postdoctoral fellow Andriy Federenko and research specialist Polina Lishko, PhD, now an assistant professor at UC Berkeley — discovered how a protein triggers the biochemical mechanism responsible for fat burning in the brown fat cell.
The new discovery suggests it may be possible to come up with a molecule that could keep the mechanism in the "on" position, to increase fat burning in the body, said Kirichok, the Jack D. and DeLoris Lange Endowed Chair in Systems Physiology at UCSF.
Whether such a strategy would be practical for weight control, however, is unclear.
Uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1), the focus of the current study and a protein long known to be required for brown fat's heat-generating capability, is only activated in brown fat, Kirichok said. This specificity may make the protein appear to be a good target, but the feedback generated within the fat cell in response to a drug might prove to be complicated, he said.
Regardless, the techniques Kirichok developed and used in this study should prove useful in investigating other key proteins that affect energy metabolism within cells, he said.
"Low levels of brown fat correlate with obesity," Kirichok said. "We have shown how fatty acids attach directly to UCP1 and help it to break down an electrical potential across the mitochondrial membranes, causing the cell to burn more fat and to generate heat in order to regenerate this potential."
Understanding the Fat-Burning Process
Within every cell there are organelles called mitochondria that serve as the cell's power plants, converting food energy into ATP — the cell's preferred fuel — through the metabolic process known as oxidative phosphorylation.
In oxidative phosphorylation, the chemical energy from fatty acids is used to create the voltage gradient across the mitochondrial membrane, and the potential energy of the voltage gradient then is used to make ATP.
Similar to the way a nine-volt battery left in your pocket might be bridged by coins and the battery wastefully run down while producing heat, UCP1 acts something like a short circuit that runs down the electrical potential normally generated across mitochondrial membranes by oxidative phosphorylation.
To a greater degree than other kinds of cells, including white fat, brown fat is chock-full of mitochondria. The abundance of mitochondria contributes to the cells' brown hue. However, in the mitochondria of brown fat, ATP production takes a back seat. Instead, the UCP1 molecules embedded within the mitochondrial membranes of these cells dissipate the mitochondrial electrical potential and drive the consumption of fat and its conversion to heat, not ATP.
To probe the long-baffling link between fatty acids and UCP1 within the mitochondria of brown fat, Kirichok's team used a highly refined version of a technique called "patch clamping" to track electrical currents. This technique allows researchers to record electrical activity and currents from a single mitochondrion. Kirichok and Lishko previously used the technique to identify a key event in the fertilization of egg by sperm in humans.
The role of UCP1 in dissipation of the mitochondrial electrical potential has been known for two decades, Kirichok said. In addition, long-chain fatty acids derived from food have long been known to be required for activation of UCP1 and thermogenesis. But it has remained unclear how the presence of fatty acids is linked to the functioning of UCP1.
With the patch clamp technique as refined by Kirichok, the UCSF researchers were able to directly track changes in electrical currents moving across mitochondrial membranes containing UCP1 under different experimental conditions, and to make inferences about what was happening biochemically. They concluded that UCP1 does not function as a simple channel to pass electrically charged ions. Instead the protein captures fatty acids and employs them to transport positively charged hydrogen ions (protons) into the mitochondria.
As more protons enter the mitochondria via UCP1, the electrical potential across the inner mitochondrial membrane dissipates. Additional cycles of oxidative phosphorylation and fat burning then are required to restore the electrical potential, Kirichok explained. During this process heat is generated.
Thermogenesis by brown fat in response to cold also involves the nervous system. The neurotransmitter molecule norepinephrine attaches to a receptor on the brown fat cell surface, which sets off a chain of events inside the cell that includes the breaking down of triglycerides from foodstuffs into the fatty acids needed by UCP1.
Given their key role in maintaining the vitality of a cell, mitochondria increasingly have become the focus of researchers who are curious about how they might malfunction in various diseases. Kirichok said he intends to continue using the patch clamp to investigate how energy and metabolism are controlled within mitochondria.
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As I see it, the only effect of having three sites instead of one is that questions in Server Fault and Super User are seen less and answered less.
This just causes audience fragmentation and dissipation for no reason.
In addition it causes useless friction and waste regarding the endless issue, where does this question belong? Belongs-there, belongs-here...
The site comes with a powerful tag filtering feature anyway.
Those three sites have very similar audiences, questions, and expertise fields.
Take for example:
- Where is the limit between writing macros and programming (Super User or Stack Overflow)?
- Is configuring rewrite rules for Apache programming or administration (Super User or Server Fault)?
- Is advanced registry configuration administration or power-user tasks (Super User or Server Fault)?
- Is writing Bash scripts programming or server administration (Stack Overflow or Server Fault)?
Feel free to add your examples in the comments...
I think the answer is that most questions fit in at least two sites and what matters is not the issue itself but what was the bigger issue the asker was trying to solve.


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Lauhkeat Lampaat - The Most Pöllö
Antti and Jaakko Tolvi who have been in all of your favourite Finnish third-eye explorers on vinyl from Qbico in 2006.
The Most Pöllö
The intention is to promote people who make beautiful music.
The intention is to introduce you to the people who have been carving their own path...with no care for what anybody thinks.
We try not to post things that are still for sale but sometimes post things that are not easily available. If you like what you hear, then find these people and tell them how great they are.
Better still, tell them and then seek out their new releases and buy them. We add links, when they are reliable and active, so that you can keep track if you so wish.
Always go straight to the artist or the label where possible. That way, the money goes straight to the people responsible for this art. These people rely on our support to keep going and make more quality releases!
Please feel free to leave comments as you go along...at least then we know you appreciate this stuff (or otherwise) and you're not just a bunch of freeloading file collectors.
If you made this music and we have pissed you off by posting any of this, please leave a comment in the post and the offending articles will be removed.
Thx, overall an interesting experimental record.
btw: I almost skipped this post because your description did not really give away what to expect and the cover initially misled me. Therefore it would be nice if you'd at least drop some more telling keywords in short write-ups like for this post.
erm..."Finnish third-eye explorers", "Qbico" ...
what were you expecting? a Take That covers band?
Well, I guess it's mostly the cover that irritated me, couldn't associate this cover with trippy music (the cover reminded a bit of the sonic youth covers' from the early 90's, the ones with the wool dolls, therefore I thought it might be somekind of noiserock). Also I had never heard of Qbico before.
Anyway, thanks again for an interesting sonic discovery.
I see what you mean about the cover. I'm sure it means something but couldn't guess what that might be. It doesn't fit with the usual Qbico aesthetic.
Anyway, if you haven't already done it, search the blog on the label name and it would be a good introduction to the great Italian label.


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To call a lipstick the best liquid lipstick ever, knowing full well there is a bunch plus more I haven't tried, then you have to believe that this lipstick is THE ONE. Ever since Huda Kattan the beauty herself came out with her Huda Beauty range I always wanted to pick up a few products but never got round to it. Being that it was my birthday month, it was the perfect excuse to go on a huge makeup spree and blame it on the fact that 'Its my birthday month'. When it comes to getting lipsticks I always head straight to YouTube to watch various girls testing and swatching the lipsticks so I can get a better idea and perspective on which colours to go for. Upon inspection I knew I wanted to try Spice Girl (Beige Brown) and the new metallic liquid lipstick Showgirl (Metallic Cranberry).
When I received the lipsticks, I was impressed highly by the packaging and the design of the lipsticks. They come in a sliding packaging with designs of what I presume to be Huda Lips having the lipstick in between them. The lipsticks come in a frosted tube with Huda's logo on top. The wand of the applicator is long and comes in a standard doe foot applicator. Now the lipsticks themselves are VERY runny! I was silly enough to hold it sideways and some literally dripped out like WATER! With that being said you would think something so liquid-y and light would take several coats on the lips to fulfil the colour…NOPE. One and a half coat is perfect and they are highly pigmented. When you apply, don't rub your lips together and allow your lips 30 seconds or so before you start to smack lips together.
The lipsticks do have a fragrance and have somewhat of a vanilla/ cake batter smell to them which is intoxicating and not nauseating. Testing Spice Girl and Showgirl (which are both two different colours) they both had the same lasting of 7+ hours. I do find that some lipsticks depending on the colour can have different lasting, formula and textures, but I don't have this problem with Huda Beauty lipsticks, Being so impressed by the two I bought, I quickly purchased another full shade in vixen (dark brown) and also picked up her mini liquid lipstick range in the Red Edition, which consist of Heartbreaker (cool red) Material Girl ( deep plum) Showgirl (metallic cranberry) and Famous (vamp red).
All in all I am addicted to Huda's lipsticks. They all wear evenly on my lips, but I am bearing in mind its because I have relatively darker shades. I do tend to find that lighter shades can run streaky and cling on to dry patches of the lips, but I have not had this problem with Spice Girl, but I will be purchasing some more nude shades of hers and I will do a continued review on how I find them. Without a doubt my favourite colour is Spice Girl… hands down this is best nude colour for dark skinned girls that I have found thus far. I love that when I have had to top up that it doesn't make my lips feel cakey or heavy and still remains very lightweight. They are extremely comfortable and feel non existent on my lips. Huda give yourself a pat on the back girl!
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'In the UK an important political art is no longer practised, even though the skill brings politics to life in an era of determined apathy. The demise is neither mourned nor noticed and yet the absence makes for duller politics – politics at a distance. We make do with a cabinet minister's parking ticket and the alleged redistribution of penalty points to make up for the lack of excitement.
'This is the first generation of national politicians without a single orator, a single mesmerising speaker. There is not one who can cast a spell. Tony Blair was the last great speaker, an underestimated orator who never delivered a dull speech. Blair could make a lacklustre text and sometimes a silly one come to inspiring life. Even when making a complex argument, he was worth seeing live, transfixing an audience.
'The decline is sudden and marked. Not so long ago Michael Foot, Tony Benn, Michael Heseltine, and Neil Kinnock could fill halls around the country, and when they spoke in the Commons MPs would leave their offices to attend. Last week's brilliant BBC4 documentary on the rivalry between Harold Wilson and Ted Heath showed how important it was for both of them to find ways of engaging directly with voters. Neither were natural orators, and yet both, especially Wilson, became at least interesting public performers....'
Richards then poses the key question: Does it matter that such characters or characteristics no longer play a part in British politics?
He thinks that it does - which is why I strongly recommend you to read the whole of his article.
And so do I - for reasons outlined in some of the posts below - which is why I've started work on updating my book Our Masters' Voices: the language and body language of politics.
Related posts
- Mediated speeches: whom do we really want to hear?
- Obama's rhetoric renews UK media interest in the 'lost art' of oratory
- Did the media ignore Hannan because they think speeches are 'bad television'?
- Is the media no longer interested in what goes on in parliament?
- Do interviews ever deliver anything but bad news for politicians and boredom for audiences?
- 'The Lost Art of Oratory' by a BBC executuve who helped to lose it in the first place
- Politician answers a question: an exception that proves the rule
- Will the 2010 UK general election be the first one to leave us speechless?
- Blair speaks and the BBC tells you what he said
- Brown speaks and the BBC doesn't tell you what he says
- Silent speeches by party leaders: the wallpaper of television news coverage
- More PowerPoint election 'news' from the BBC
- At last: the first sign of passion and audience excitement in an election speech
- It was Brown's last minute speeches wot might have won it - if only he'd done it sooner


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MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 8, 2010 — The United States is seeing signs that sanctions against Iran by the international community are starting to have an impact, and, while working to strengthen its relationship with China, will maintain the right to navigate its naval ships in international waters, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
U.N. Security Council sanctions, plus even more rigorous sanctions imposed by individual counties, are "creating pressure on the Iranian government" and "getting their attention," Gates said during a news conference following today's Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations.
"Without getting into details, we see evidence that the sanctions are biting more deeply than the Iranians anticipated they would," Gates told reporters in a roundtable following the news conference. "And that the actions individual countries have taken, on top of the U.N. Security Council resolution, have had considerable effect in terms of aggravating Iran's trade and financial operations."
Gates reiterated President Barack Obama's statement that "all options are on the table" to get Iran to abandon its nuclear weapons program. "We are doing what we need to do to ensure that he has those options," Gates said.
He expressed confidence, however, that the political and economic approach now being taken shows promise.
Gates said much of today's talks here focused on China, and "additional ways in which we can engage China and work with China."
Noting that he sees "some promising signs from China in terms of military-to-military relations," Gates said he has accepted an invitation to visit Beijing early next year to encourage more.
Secertary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who participated with Gates and Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Defense Minister Stephen Smith at the summit, said the United States has "a very robust dialog with China" and welcomes its economic success and the positive effects it is having on the Chinese people.
But as China becomes "more of a player in regional and global affairs," she said, "we would expect that China will be a responsible player and will participate in the international framework of rules that govern the way nations behave."
Gates, asked about territorial disputes in the South China Sea, cited the important work during last month's Association of Southeast Asian Nations ministerial conference in Hanoi and in other forums by a variety of countries to establish rules ensuring freedom of navigation and maritime security within the context of international laws.
"It seems to us that that kind of multilateral engagement among all the countries, including China, is the most productive way forward," he said.
But in the meantime, Gates said, the United States won't allow China to keep it from operating in international waters.
"We believe and long have believed in the importance of freedom of navigation, and we intend to abide by international law," Gates said. "We will assert freedom of navigation."
Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, emphasized that no country has the right to restrict another's use of international waters.
"They aren't owned by China. They aren't owned by Korea," Mullen said. "They are international waters in which … many other countries have sailed forever. My expectation is we will continue to do that."
U.S. Department of Defense
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If you happen to live in or be visiting one of the dozens of states experiencing record–breaking heat this month, you might be asking yourself a few questions right about now. Will I ever stop sweating? Did I really just get a sunburn in under five minutes? How many Slurpees is too many? And, most importantly, what can I do to stay cool!?
Our readers always have the best travel advice. Here are five of their favorite tips for beating the summer heat:
•Now that airlines serve either snack boxes or no food at all, we often pack sandwiches. I also like to freeze a bunch of grapes and place them in a freezer bag. They'll keep your lunch or dinner cold, and you'll have a cool snack when they defrost.
—Patricia Spillane, Warwick, R.I.
•I always take a tube of natural–beeswax–based lip balm (SPF 15+) with me when I travel. It's almost like carrying a mini first–aid kit. It serves as a lip balm, of course, but also as an emergency sunscreen for my nose, a moisturizer around my eyes, and a blister preventer for my hands and feet.
—Jay Hammond, Gilbert, Ariz.
•As a diabetic who loves to travel, I've learned how to keep my insulin cool: Carry a reusable ice pack, which also chills sandwiches, snacks, and beverages while sightseeing. Refreeze the pack in the hotel's mini fridge overnight to use the next day.
—Henry Heitmann, Fort Myers Beach, Fla.
•If you're planning a vacation and want to bring cold drinks to the beach with you, use a six–pack cooler as a toiletry bag. When you get to your destination and unload your toiletries in the bathroom, the bag can be used as a cooler for the rest of the trip.
—Kelly Sortino, San Francisco, Calif.
•The last time we went to Disney World, we had two 24–count cases of bottled water delivered to the hotel's front desk before we arrived. Instead of shelling out $2 or $3 per bottle in the parks, we paid a total of $12 for both cases. You can order them from chain stores such as Staples.
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DALLAS (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush has died at the age of 94.
Family spokesman Jim McGrath says Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush.
The nation's 41st president served from 1989 to 1993, and eight years later watched his son George W. became the 43rd president.
The elder Bush saw his popularity swell with the United States' success in the Gulf War in 1991, only to watch it evaporate in a brief but deep recession. The Republican was defeated in his bid for a second term by Democrat Bill Clinton.
Bush had also been a World War II hero, Texas congressman, CIA director and Ronald Reagan's vice president.
Only one other U.S. president, John Adams, had a son who also became president.
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There is a time of year here when ecumenism (in the sense of "a movement promoting worldwide unity among religions through greater cooperation and improved understanding") is celebrated in services held by different faiths in the community (mosques, churches, synagogues in the main).
Is there a (view?) here respecting participation in same? Anybody do it/done it?
Ps. Aside from Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hahn, I mean.


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Technical standard
A technical standard is an established norm or requirement in regard to technical systems. It is usually a formal document that establishes uniform engineering or technical criteria, methods, processes and practices. In contrast, a custom, convention, company product, corporate standard, etc. that becomes generally accepted and dominant is often called a de facto standard.
A technical standard may be developed privately or unilaterally, for example by a corporation, regulatory body, military, etc. Standards can also be developed by groups such as trade unions, and trade associations. Standards organizations often have more diverse input and usually develop voluntary standards: these might become mandatory if adopted by a government (i.e. through legislation), business contract, etc.
The standardization process may be by edict or may involve the formal consensus[1] of technical experts.
The primary types of technical standards are:
- A standard specification is an explicit set of requirements for an item, material, component, system or service. It is often used to formalize the technical aspects of a procurement agreement or contract.[2] For example, there may be a specification for a turbine blade for a jet engine that defines the exact material and performance requirements.
- A standard test method describes a definitive procedure that produces a test result. It may involve making a careful personal observation or conducting a highly technical measurement. For example, a physical property of a material is often affected by the precise method of testing: any reference to the property should therefore reference the test method used.
- A standard practice or procedure gives a set of instructions for performing operations or functions. For example, there are detailed standard operating procedures for operation of a nuclear power plant.[3]
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- Regional standard: see standards of the Regional standards organizations. For example, CEN standards.
- International standard: see International standards organizations Example, ISO and ASTM International.
National/Regional/International standards is one way of overcoming technical barriers in inter-local or inter-regional commerce caused by differences among technical regulations and standards developed independently and separately by each local, local standards organisation, or local company. Technical barriers arise when different groups come together, each with a large user base, doing some well established thing that between them is mutually incompatible. Establishing national/regional/international standards is one way of preventing or overcoming this problem.
The existence of a published standard does not imply that it is always useful or correct. For example, if an item complies with a certain standard, there is not necessarily assurance that it is fit for any particular use. The people who use the item or service (engineers, trade unions, etc.) or specify it (building codes, government, industry, etc.) have the responsibility to consider the available standards, specify the correct one, enforce compliance, and use the item correctly. Validation of suitability is necessary.
Standards often get reviewed, revised and updated on a regular basis. It is critical that the most current version of a published standard be used or referenced. The originator or standard writing body often has the current versions listed on its web site.
In social sciences, including economics, a standard is useful if it is a solution to a coordination problem: it emerges from situations in which all parties realize mutual gains, but only by making mutually consistent decisions. Examples:
Parties | Mutual gains | Problem | Solution |
Mechanical industry companies | Suppliers interchange, stock gains, etc. | Screw thread compatibility | Screw thread standard specifications |
Pharmaceutical industry and medic community | Enable medical prescriptions, suppliers interchange, etc. | Drug uniformity | Drug standard specifications |
See also
- List of computer standards
- Software standard
- Specification (technical standard)
- Standard (metrology)
- ↑ Example of TAPPI standards development regulations
- ↑ "Standard Specifications". Oregon.gov. Oregon.gov. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ "Operational Limits and Conditions and Operating Procedures for Nuclear Power Plants Safety Guide". International Atomic Energy Association. IAEA. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ Example: SAE International copyright policy


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The Philadelphia Eagles have done a nice job this offseason re-signing key players and adding a few pieces to their talented team. The biggest remaining issue is LeSean McCoy's contract.
DeSean Jacksondoesn't believe McCoy should hold out for a new contract like Jackson did, and it doesn't look like it will be necessary. Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that McCoy's agent Drew Rosenhaus and the Eagleshave engaged in "productive" talks since the end of the season.
"No one is frustrated at this point," a source told McLane. "It's not like either side has stomped away upset. But there's a ways to go."
It's uncertain if McCoy will hold out of training camp if he doesn't have a new contract by then. Jackson believes staying away would be a mistake.
"I think it would be in his best interest to come" Jackson said. "Looking back now it really hurt me more than I thought it helped me. Hopefully he saw everything I went through, and hopefully Drew won't have him go through the same thing. . . . I just hope he doesn't take it there with the team because the Eagles are a team you don't want to try force anything with them or strong-arm them."
Rosenhaus learned the hard way about dealing with the Eagles during negotiations with Terrell Owens and Jackson. DeSean didn't get his money until he was back in the fold for a season. It sounds odd for Jackson to be giving contract negotiation advice, but his point is a strong one.
McCoy should get paid this year, but skipping camp probably won't speed up the process.


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Tom Hartigan launched Thomas Hartigan Enterprises (T.H.E. Swimwear) from the attic of his home. Today, T.H.E. prides itself on producing the best quality swimwear on the market time and again.
It is continually upgrading and expanding itself to create new ideas and products, such as the Topanga swimwear collection. The Topanga line is its newest line of missy and women's separates. Topanga swimwear combines versatile and generous cuts with quality materials. Mix and match the flattering patterned prints with solid bottoms for the ultimate fit.
One of T.H.E.'s top priorities is to give the missy customer a flattering figure. Its swimsuits are designed to produce a proportionally fitted suit that camouflages negative features with prints. Its bathing suits are all designed with the purpose of giving women the most desirable form – the hourglass figure.


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There's very few users out there who actually have their hands on an Open Pandora Console. But the ones who do might find this hack useful for getting TV out up and running. It's actually not hard at all, but if you don't want to alter the hardware on the device you'll first have to find a cable plug that will fit the EXT jack. This proved more difficult than it needed to be, since TI carries the connector but only sells them in multiples of 2200. A group buy was organized and we'd bet you can still get in on that action.
The connector in question carries TVout1 and TVout2 conductors. These correspond to the Luminance and Chrominance signals needed for the S-video protocol. But [MarkoeZ] wanted to use a composite connection. Turns out that's not hard either, he hooked up the ground from the plug to the ground of the RCA jack, then connected both video lines to the center conductor, making sure to add an inline 470pf capacitor on the Chrominance side. Check out the demo video embedded after the break to see the final product.


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Cobweb Hens And Chicks
You've likely never seen anything like this – the name is well deserved, as the small balls of succulent leaves are covered in fine silver hairs, truly resembling a network of cobwebs between each leaf and between the rosettes; a most unusual plant
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Species: arachnoideum
Other Species Names: House Leek
Plant Height: 3 in.
Spread: 12 in.
Evergreen: No
Plant Form: over mound
Emergent Foliage Color: silver
Summer Foliage Color: sea green
Minimum Sunlight: full sun
Maximum Sunlight: full sun
Cobweb Hens And Chicks's attractive tomentose pointy leaves emerge silver in spring, turning bluish-green in color with hints of silver throughout the season. It features unusual clusters of pink star-shaped flowers with dark red bracts rising above the foliage in mid summer. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.
Cobweb Hens And Chicks is a dense herbaceous perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect. This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should not require much pruning, except when necessary, such as to remove dieback. Deer don't particularly care for this plant and will usually leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration; Spreading Cobweb Hens And Chicks is recommended for the following landscape applications; Rock/Alpine Gardens Border Edging General Garden Use Container Planting
Cobweb Hens And Chicks will grow to be only 3 inches tall at maturity extending to 8 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 12 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 10 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years. This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers dry to average moisture levels with very well-drained soil, and will often die in standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in sandy soils, and is able to handle environmental salt. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation. Cobweb Hens And Chicks is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers and foliage against which the larger thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.


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Ok, I'm going to try to wrap up the post from last night. I still don't have a clear idea of what I'm trying to communicate or accomplish, so bear with me. Since I began seeing my psychiatrist a couple … Continue reading
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March 16, 2020 (Phoenix) – To address the impact of COVID-19 during this worldwide pandemic, and with the advice of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, the Board of Supervisors approved emergency exceptions to the county's employee leave and teleworking policies today. These changes will help protect the health of the county's workforce while ensuring employees who need additional flexibility to care for dependent children continue to receive a paycheck. The exceptions also allow employees affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to continue providing essential services to the public in a safe, secure way.
These are the changes approved by the Board:
The exceptions to county employee leave (HR2415) and teleworking (HR2409) are in effect for 60 days.


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I just finished writing my third e-book about Perl one-liners. Perl one-liners are small and awesome Perl programs that fit in a single line of code and they do one thing really well. These things include changing line spacing, numbering lines, doing calculations, converting and substituting text, deleting and printing certain lines, parsing logs, editing files in-place, and many more. The book is 111 pages long and contains precisely 130 well explained one-liners. Have a look!
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After a day of excitement at Orlando's famous attractions or a day of productive business at the Orange County Convention Center, head back to the 100% non-smoking BEST WESTERN Orlando Convention Center Hotel. Rest and relax in a spacious, well-appointed guest room complete with 42-inch LCD TV, refrigerator, in-room safe and bright modern decor. While visiting, we invite you to enjoy our many complimentary amenities, such as free high-speed Internet access, a full hot breakfast each morning, an on-site fitness center, local calls, USA Today and our large outdoor pool with spacious sundeck.
We make conducting business on the road easy. Our on-site business center offers complimentary access to computers, internet, printing and faxing facilities. The Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) is a short walk from this Orlando hotel.
For exceptional service, location and quality book the BEST WESTERN Orlando Convention Center Hotel today!


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The wind instruments Alta trio is characteristic of the formation in alta capella (two reeds and one brass), described by the theorist and composer Johannes Tinctoris (1435-1511). These high instruments ('high' to understand here in the sense of strong, powerful) were particularly popular during the festive situations or more solemn celebrations: dances, banquets, tournaments, royal encounters ...
Listen to musical excerpt:
Pierre Boragno / shawm, bagpipes, recorders, tambour
Béatrice Delpierre / shawm, dulcian, recorders
Gilles Rapin / slide trumpet, cornet
Alta performs in concert, or in several successive sets, both outdoors, in the heritage sites (castles, museums ...) and festivals to discover this music and these rare instruments. He regularly joins forces with Alla francesca and / or Discantus ensembles, covering entire range of sound of medieval music (vocals, strings, and winds high and low). Among the concert programs that brought them together: the Ball of the Burning Men (a news item in 1393 concerns the figure of Charles VI, including Parisian music, punctuated with chronics and poems told by René Zosso) ; The City of Paris, street, palace, church (Parisian music in the 13th century) ; in 1465, the incredible journey of Leon Rosmital (music in Europe in the 15th century).
We can hear the trio together with Alla francesca in two recordings: Johannes Ciconia and Armes, amours.
Each member of Alta is also a member or guest soloist of the best early music French groups, Renaissance or Baroque, and has an important educational activity.Depending on the program, other artists may participate to the concerts:
Michèle Vandenbroucque / shawm, dulcian
Pierre Hamon / bagpipes, recorders
Bruno Caillat / percussion
Michèle Claude / percussion


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Gregory Christen, 64, died in the early morning of Jan. 25, 2014, at his stepson's home in Anchorage. Survived by his wife, Sandy Christen; daughter Janna Christen; and stepsons Will and Rory Stark, Greg passed away peacefully in his sleep due to complications with heart failure after a lengthy battle with cancer. In his last few days Greg was surrounded by his wife and children who watched over him and made him as comfortable as possible.
"Greg will be fondly remembered as the honorable man that he was, always generous and more than willing to share stories and laughter. His life, full of adventure, travel, loved ones, and an ever present appreciation for the little things, continues to inspire friends and family, and serves as an enduring reminder to enjoy life every step of the way. He will be greatly missed," his family said.
A service will be held this spring in Little Tutka Bay.


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Holds Integer values that can be represented in a native machine word (minus 1 bit). If any operation on a Fixnum exceeds this range, the value is automatically converted to a Bignum.
Fixnum objects have immediate value. This means that when they are assigned or passed as parameters, the actual object is passed, rather than a reference to that object.
Assignment does not alias Fixnum objects. There is effectively only one Fixnum object instance for any given integer value, so, for example, you cannot add a singleton method to a Fixnum. Any attempt to add a singleton method to a Fixnum object will raise a TypeError.
When mathn is required, Fixnum's division is enhanced to return more precise values from mathematical expressions.
2/3*3 # => 0 require 'mathn' 2/3*3 # => 2


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Loki. 2013. Watercolor on paper, 9 × 12″.
Busy, busy, busy. Almost finished with a gloriously over-the-top movie poster. Next week I should finish my first short story for DC. Then a sculpture project for a very picky client. Have a great weekend!
P.S. Thanks to all the blog followers... we just passed a thousand!


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So at my old job, there was this girl I had a serious crush on. I mean, everything about her was amazing. Her hair, her lips, her football-shaped body... the way she entered those numbers into the AS/400, it was like God himself had sent one of his angels down to Earth to enter numbers into the AS/400.
So I was talking about her to my friend Ryan, and he said, "Hey, dude, you have that old Casio, right? Why don't you write her a love song?"
I thought it was a good idea. So the next day, I went to work, and Ryan came with me and brought his guitar, and I laid it all down for her.
Well, unfortunately, she said no. And also I was fired. But I learned one thing: it's better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved at all.
Anyway, these were the lyrics.
My Love Song to the Girl at Work
- If I had a monkey, and you had a football,
- then I'd pay a dollar to watch my monkey fuck your football.
- They would be making love. Making love.
- Making love. Making sweet, sweet love to a football.
- Making sweet, sweet love to a football.
- Well lately, girl, all that I can think about is you and me
- and sex and furry mammals and football. And your hair, and your smile,
- and your radiant personality and sex with footballs.
- Let's go back to my basement apartment
- and play some Madden '93 and take it from there.
- It's kinda old but it still kicks ass,
- and you could wear my football costume - but hey, no pressure.
- Well, you are a woman. And I'm not a football.
- But I'd still pay a dollar to fuck you if I was a football.
- We would be making love. Making love.
- Making love. Making sweet, sweet love to a football.
- Making sweet, sweet love to a football.
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